• Join Simon Tappin MA VetMB CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS for three 2-hour online sessions and get expert help in handling your patients with anaemia and bleeding disorders
• Comprehensive notes to download
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on your iPad!
• This Mini Series was originally broadcast in June 2016.

Programme

Approaching the Anaemic Patient

• Review of red cell physiology and the approach to patients with anaemia
• Assessment of laboratory findings
  • Blood smear analysis
  • Understanding red cell parameters
  • Cytological morphology
  • How to classify causes of anaemia
• Understand how, when and where to take a bone marrow biopsy
• Introduction to transfusion medicine
  • How to collect and administer a transfusion
  • What component therapies might be useful from veterinary blood banks

The Causes of Anaemia and How to Treat Them Successfully

• Causes of regenerative anaemia
  • Blood loss anaemia
  • Haemolysis
  • Immune mediated red cell destruction
• Treatment options for immune mediated haemolytic anaemia including which immunosuppressive therapies should be considered
• Causes of non-regenerative anaemia, including chronic renal failure and bone marrow disease
• Understanding how and when to use erythropoietin
• Plenty of case-based examples

Approach To and Treatment Of the Bleeding Patient

• Coagulation in cats and dogs, including recent advances in understanding
• Assessment of laboratory and patient side tests of coagulation
• Primary coagulation disorders – thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopathia and von Willibrand’s disease
• Secondary coagulation disorders
  • Inherited diseases such as haemophilia A and B, and Hageman factor deficiency
  • Acquired disorders such as rodenticide toxicity
• Understanding disseminated intravascular coagulation and treatment options